Starship, the launch vehicle for the proposed AI data center
Who Owns the Sky? A Proposed Takeover.
SPACEWEATHER.COM: 05/28/2026
PUTTING THE “MEGA” IN MEGACONSTELLATION: Two months ago, headlines announced a Space Age milestone: SpaceX now has more than 10,000 active Starlink satellites circling Earth–two-thirds of all the working satellites in the sky. Analysts were gobsmacked by the pace of change.
Turns out, that’s nothing. Back in January, SpaceX had already filed paperwork asking the FCC for permission to launch a million. The proposed megaconstellation would become a solar-powered AI data center, requiring hourly rocket launches carrying a million tons of satellites per year.
